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22 April, 2015

a while ago I made a walk with Tara near the Main river. I love this little piece of nature though usually it's crowded there (when the weather is nice).
Before we enjoyed ourselves in the nice café again.

Tara's cake

My cinnamon parfait I fell in love with

And the pretty tea set you always get there

This is next to the river. I love how there are this old and traditional buildings while you can see the modern skyscapers in the back

I really like the modern buildings of Frankfurt as well

But the traditional buildings are so special!

A shot of the river itself

And one more. The sky was so blue! But then some clouds were coming

I found this view rather special so I took a photo of it and it came out quite well

That's it for today. Have you ever visited Frankfurt? Even if it just was for a plane change? Tell me about it.

14 April, 2015

I hope everyone had nice holidays and got lots of eggs and chocolate.
I'd like to go back a few weeks since I made a little trip to my mum's place and we went to the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) together. It still was quite cold and there was a lot of snow. I love the Schwarzwald for it's beautiful nature and the great atmosphere. It is said that witches, goblins and some other magical creatures are living there. This is what it kind of makes it so special.
I took lots and lots of photos. This is why I made this little cut here. Click to go on reading.

17 March, 2015

a while ago I have been downtown with Tara to buy some stuff and everything and whe thought why not try out a café. Finally we sat there for hours and it was really nice. They still had winter specials and it was so delicious.

Tara had some hot chocolate and a chocolate cream cake.

She said it tasted amazing! And it also looked like that!

I got some green tea. Look at the cute tea set!

It tasted really good!

And to eat I had some cinnamon parfait with hot cherries.

I loved it!

The prices were also alright. We got the cake for about 4€. The hot chocolate was the same. Tea was about 6€ and the parfait 7,50€. It's alright for a café in Frankfurt city I guess.

In the evening we decided to go to a Eritrean restaurant since we had a coupon for it. The restaurant itself didn't look that good from the outside. But the inside was comfy and nice. For each table they kind of had a private space so you were more for yourself. The service was great! They were really nice! Also the food was very delicious.

This is some Eritrean tea which actually tasted like Kinderpunsch (glogg?) without any sugar. Amazing!

Start with the soup base first. Mix together about 400ml water, 1 tbsp mirin, soy sauce and tsuyu. Add about 1 tsp dashi powder. Then add the konbu and let it cook for about 10min. In the meantime cut the cabbage in thin stripes. Do the same with the carrot. Heat up some water in a pot and blanch the vegetables one after another. This means put them into the pot and take it out after about 10-20 seconds.
The soup should be ready now and you can add the udon. If it's fresh udon wait for another 5 min. If it's dried udon add it and let it cook until done (might take up to 10min).Now put the udon and the soup into a bowl. Add the toppings on it and it's done!Fresh and healthy udon!
Of course you can add also other toppings, like aburaage, eggs or whatever else you like!

If you need it to be vegetarian try this:
Instead of tsuyu and dashi use soy sauce, konbu and shiitake mushrooms. Buy the dried ones and put them into the water you will later use as soup base. After about 1 hour take them out and rinse the water through a kitchen towel (so the sand and everythin else that was inside won't be in the soup afterwards!). Now heat up the water with mushroom flavor and add konbu, soy sauce and mirin. Then proceed like in the normal recipe.

23 February, 2015

finally I'm able to write the last opening for this year: Cocolulu.
Tara bought it for 10,000yen plus shipping and customs. Together it was about 160€.
She's really satisfied with everything though she won't buy another one next year. Cocolulu once was as you might know really colorful and had this happy kind of amekaji. Now everything became so boring. Even the new SS15 collection is just plain and the many colors are missing. It's really sad. There was this other label called Blue Moon Blue which had the same style but it's gone. Well... everything is kind of dying.

This is the backpack everything came in. It's very soft material and seems to be quite good quality.

Brand tag on the side.

Thick winter jacket. The yellow and orange stripes are actually really pale not that strong. It looks quite nice.

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Another jacket. It's dark blue denim and really nice.

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Shirt #1. Very soft material

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Shirt #2

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Tracksuit Pants with blue, yellow and green pattern

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Leather belt

With brand name (5ty6) on it

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Leather wallet chain

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Co&Lu Mug package

Was available in blue and pink. Tara took blue

That's it about it. As you can see despite the jacket and maybe the pants nothing really is colorful but quite plain. The girl's fashion is still a bit different anyway men's fashion by Coandlu is just... boring.